Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 17: on the way

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Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen were stunned there, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.

It turns out that your so-called participation is whether you want to "chorus" with those beasts... After Long Yuehong regained his thoughts, he wanted to say this, but he felt that in this atmosphere, whoever ignored Shang Jianyao would lose. .

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian laughed:

"Bai Chen, you forgot to be on guard around you!

"Shang Jianyao, even if there are dozens of robbers in the wilderness, they may not be able to deal with us, and you have disintegrated the defense system from the inside with your own power!"

Shang Jianyao nodded solemnly and said:

"So I thought about it.

"Also, I am prepared for emergencies."

"I was really surprised, but I didn't relax my guard around the surroundings." Bai Chen explained forcefully.

She was a little ashamed of her gaffe and dereliction of duty just now.

As a human who has been wandering in the wilderness for many years, her knowledge is not much. She has not encountered any homeless people with mental breakdown and abnormal state, and there are quite a few. Those people's words and deeds are more exaggerated than Shang Jianyao. .

But the problem is that Shang Jianyao behaves normally most of the time, until Bai Chen thinks that he is just joking and playing a prank occasionally.

She never thought that the other party would be so "creative".

"That's right, stay alert at all times." Jiang Baimian didn't pierce Bai Chen's words, tilted his head slightly, looked at Shang Jianyao with a smile, and said, "When this training is over, it is indeed necessary to do a mental evaluation of all the members."

Shang Jianyao applauded lightly:

"I wish you full marks!"

Bai Chen didn't expect Jiang Baimian to speak out about his mental evaluation so carelessly, because it would obviously seriously stimulate Shang Jianyao—although she had suggested it before, but Shang Jianyao's performance was not too exaggerated at that time. Barely within the normal range, at most like to tell bad jokes, so the direction of the proposal is not strong.

In the same way, Bai Chen didn't expect that Shang Jianyao would not care at all, just like it was just an exaggerated prank.

Or, he has long recognized his state, accepted such a self, and is not inferior or sensitive at all? Bai Chen shook his head and reminded himself that no matter what others did, he had to do his part and not be influenced.

At this time, Jiang Baimian looked down at the electronic watch on his wrist:

"Okay, take turns resting.

"Normally it should be me and Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, taking turns to rest, but the two of you have no experience, so it's easy to ignore some signs, and when you go out to work, there are many dangers and limited conditions. You don't need to forcefully distinguish between men and women. Honesty and mutual trust are the most important things. Therefore, I have a group with Shang Jianyao, and a group with Bai Chen and Long Yuehong. "

Having said this, Jiang Baimian smiled:

"Actually, the conditions are very good this time. There is a jeep, one in the front row and one in the back seat, so it won't disturb each other at all."

Bai Chen heard the words and nodded:

"I used to sleep in the same tent with two men, two women, a pig, and two chickens."

Jiang Baimian immediately stood up:

"Okay, let's go to rest, Shang Jianyao and I will be on duty at night."

She looked down at her watch again:

"You have six hours."

"Team leader, will this be too long?" Bai Chen was not too relieved.

From now on, I will be on duty for six hours at night, and I will just go through the most exhausting and sleepy stage of the human physiological cycle. It is easy to ignore the abnormal movement around me.

Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"The three of us are genetically modified people, and one thing in common is a lot of energy.

"I should be better than them in this regard, and I can maintain a good concentration without sleep for a day or two."

"I can too..." Long Yuehong muttered.

Jiang Baimian looked at him sideways:

"What did you say

"Are you talking bad about me behind my back?"

"He didn't!" Shang Jianyao hurriedly replied, "He said it in front of you!"

Long Yuehong was choked and coughed.

Jiang Baimian waved his hand and said to Shang Jianyao:

"It's normal for you to be like this, okay, you two go to sleep."

She finally looked at Bai Chen and said to Long Yuehong.

This night, nothing happened. When the sun rose from the sky and dyed the clouds golden red, the four members of the "Old Tunes Group" were already around the bonfire, drinking warm water and nibbling on energy bars.

"It's so beautiful, so spectacular..." Long Yuehong looked at the direction of the sunrise and found that her vocabulary was so scarce.

The magnificent scene, the picture with infinite vitality, made Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao, who came to the surface for the first time, seem to have been washed physically and mentally, and felt some kind of indescribable beauty and hope.

"It was the first time I saw the sunrise that I was more rude than you guys." Jiang Baimian didn't laugh at them.

Bai Chen also looked at the sunrise, but did not speak.

As a human who was born in the wilderness and grew up in the wilderness, she has long been accustomed to the sunrise, but every time she sees it, she is still inexplicably happy and uplifting.

"Okay, pack up and get ready to go. Long Yuehong, you and Bai Chen sit in the back row and make up for some sleep. Shang Jianyao and I take turns driving." Jiang Baimian got up and said after filling his water bladder. .

"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong retracted her gaze and responded loudly.

After dealing with the bonfire, he saw that the empty shells of the cans he ate last night were randomly thrown on the ground:

"Team leader, won't you recycle?"

"Pangu creatures" are located underground, lack of minerals, and metal resources have always been in a very embarrassing state. They must use their own food, genetically improved stock solution, biological agents, underground brine and salt extracted from the rock surface to exchange with other major forces. supplies.

Jiang Baimian looked back and said after two seconds of silence:

"Need not.

"Occupy space."

After speaking, she opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat.

Since the team leader said so, Long Yuehong resisted the urge to take it back, took the gun, and hurried back to the car.

The simulated engine sounded, and the gray-green four-door jeep drove out of the open space against the dense solar charging panels, away from this small ruin.

After a few minutes, a dark figure came out from behind the half-collapsed building complex and crept close to the extinguished bonfire.

"He" paused at times, covered by plants and remnants of walls, and at times crawled forward with alternating elbows.

When "he" confirmed that the four people had really left, "he" jumped up suddenly, rushed to the campfire, and picked up the empty metal cans.

"He" was clothed in black linen, carrying a rifle, and was about 1.6 meters tall. His face had no skin or flesh, only silver-black metal.

There are many cracks on the metal surface, faintly revealing the lines and components of different colors below.

One of "his" eyes flashed red, and the other was already "extinguished", and his hands were like skeletons, made of pure silver and black metal.

This is an intelligent robot.

"I picked it up, I picked it up..." It made a monotonous sound without ups and downs, hugged the empty cans, and ran back to the back of the ruins.

After a round of twists and turns, it got into a hole where steel and concrete were randomly placed together.

In the hollow was a boy wrapped in a tattered cotton-padded jacket and surrounded by animal furs.

The child was only twelve or thirteen years old, his face was dirty, his fingernails were full of black mud, and a tattered tricycle full of various sundries and garbage was parked beside him.

He took the empty cans and showed a smile that couldn't be concealed.

Then, while dividing the empty can shells into three groups and placing them in different piles of debris, he smiled at the intelligent robot:

"Xiao Qi, this is almost full, I can give you new eyes.

"We have to save up here, winter is coming, we need to change a lot of food and coal, as well as your battery.

"The ones here will be replaced when I go back..."

After speaking, the boy scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly:

"There's almost no food left.

"I've been eating a bit too much lately..."

Xiao Qi nodded vigorously, still in the same tone with no ups and downs:

"Well arranged."

"Get in the car, let's go back to the settlement." The boy sat in the driving seat of the tricycle.

In the beeping sound, he drove the tricycle to the distance among the narrow and bumpy ruins and plants that could hardly be called a road.

While driving, he said to the intelligent robot behind:

"Xiao Qi, you said that when the winter passed, did mom and dad come back?"

The jeep maintained an unpleasant speed and continued to move forward in the black marsh wilderness.

When it was almost noon, Bai Chen, who was driving, suddenly frowned after turning a corner:

"There's a group of people ahead..."

Before waiting for Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong to respond, she added in a deep voice:

"They saw us."